A/N: Because my brain and imagination have both mysteriously run off to frolic in a field of pretty flowers and got mauled by a mysteriously appearing lion in the process, and also my life has been infected with the summmerboredomteenagers virus, there will be no witty author's note this week. Thank you for your time, and we will now return you to your regularly scheduled fan fiction. XD

Warnings: boy love, language, OOC, and…. Refer to previous chapters. :D

Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO OR MIDNIGHT SECERTARY

"Talking"

"Thinking"

??? – Time/Scene Change

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Needed?

"Goddamn it Itachi! What the hell?!" Sasuke hissed angrily from his position on the floor beside his bed.

"Well otouto, 'the hell', as you so kindly put it, is that you're going to be late if you don't get your ass into gear," Itachi replied calmly as he smoothed out the bed covers. "Soon."

Sasuke glared at his smirking older brother and then glanced over to the clock to see that he still had an hour before he had to leave. His alarm hadn't even gone off yet. Well, the last one hadn't anyways. Sasuke had a total of six alarms programmed into his cell phone because the younger Uchiha was definitely not a morning person.

"Aniki…" Sasuke tried to keep calm. "I still have an hour before I have to leave! Did you mysteriously forget how to read a clock overnight or something?!" the younger raven fumed as he stood up from the floor.

"Or something." Itachi answered easily. "And I wanted us to have breakfast together."

Sasuke stared blankly at his older brother. "You threw my out of my bed because you wanted to have breakfast with me?"

"Yes," Itachi answered. "I felt that we needed to strengthen our brotherly bond."

"I will kill you in your sleep."

Itachi merely smirked and straightened Sasuke's covers out more. "Fine. No pancakes for you then."

Sauske growled before surrendering. "Fine. I have to get to work early today anyways."

"Hurry down then, otouto," Itachi waved as he watched his brother walk to the bathroom.

Sasuke could feel the beginnings of a major headache coming on, and it wasn't even 8:00 in the morning yet. Today was just not his day. Why did Itachi have to be so damn cheery in the morning? Or as cheery as an Uchiha could get that is. Sasuke reached the bathroom, stared at his tired reflection, and then started to brush his teeth before suddenly noticing that his pajamas suddenly felt heavier than usual.

"Itachi?"

"Yes Sasuke?"

"Why am I wet?"

Sasuke snapped his toothbrush in half when he heard the distinct sound of his bedroom door being slammed shut.

???

The secretary fidgeted nervously in front of a certain manger's office door. Sasuke then took a deep breath and knocked on the door quietly, silently hoping that Kiba wouldn't be in his office.

"Come in."

Sasuke cursed his luck and then composed himself before calmly opening the door.

"Ah Sasuke-kun. Good. I was just about to send for you." Kiba grinned as he looked up from his work.

"You… were..?" Sasuke asked hesitantly.

"Yes. I wanted to tell you that I have finally removed you from your position as Naruto's secretary."

"But –"

"Don't worry," Kiba cut in. "Your duties have been divided among the secretarial office. So you don't have to worry about Naruto. His needs have been taken care of. But for now, we will just have to use the 'health' excuse so that you can have a few days off because I'm worried about your health and I'm sure the small vacation will do you good."

"But Inuz –"

"And don't worry about the formalities with the removal process and the reappointment order. I'll take care of everything. Also, I know that Naruto takes your blood regularly now, but I don't think it'll be that big of a deal if you're not around. He'll just go back to his original feeding plan and after adjusting back to it. He'll be fine." Kiba grinned at a job well done.

"Inuzuka-san. I'm sorry for causing you so much trouble. But I wasn't thinking clearly. I am now. And I can't leave Director Uzumaki."

Kiba's self satisfied grinned dropped. "What? Why?"

"I let my personal affairs control my actions and I shouldn't have done that. I wanted a way out and you offered so I grabbed at it without even thinking the situation through clearly. But now I have, and I've decided that I'll be fine remaining at the director's side. But I am truly sorry that my personal issues have caused problems for the company. I will take full responsibility." Sasuke stated firmly.

"Sasuke-kun," Kiba sighed shaking his head. "Causing the company problems? Sasuke-kun you're a very valued employee, but you give yourself too much credit."

Sasuke had to seriously bite the inside of his cheeks to keep himself from throwing insults at the grinning dog lover.

"Hn… Is that blood?" Sasuke silently mused, but was careful to keep his expression neutral as Kiba continued.

"So don't say stuff like that, and think about what other people will think about your relationship with Naruto. To you, it may just seem like a little "fling", but to others, it'll be blown out of proportion and will follow you around everywhere you go. Especially since Naruto is a director to a very big company and you're both guys. But most likely it'll be more damaging to you than Naruto since almost everyone already knows about his sexual tendencies. Sasuke, no 'company problem' is worth destroying yourself over."

Sasuke didn't miss the mocking tone Kiba had put on the words "company problem" but decided to let it slide. He nodded as Kiba usual grin once again returned.

"But I care about you Sasuke-kun and you are the perfect secretary. It'd be a great loss to us if we did loose you. So take this as an order from me as the manager and not advise. Leave Naruto."

Sasuke felt his heart plummet to his stomach and he was finding it difficult to breathe. Then he remembered one of the main reasons he had remained Naruto's secretary even after discovering the blond was a vampire. "But what about m –"

"He'll be fine." Kiba answered without missing a beat. "He'll be under my protection. I promise Sasuke-kun, he'll be fine. No one will hurt your brother."

Sasuke was really getting tired of being interrupted, but, nonetheless, he looked at Kiba surprised. "You know?"

"I guessed. Naruto loves to threaten people, and he doesn't let go of tools easily."

"Tools…" Sasuke whispered to himself and felt a familiar pain in his chest.

"I'm sorry!" Kiba suddenly shouted.

Sasuke jumped back in alarm. "Inuzuka-san?"

"Naruto is my best friend, and in truth I acted out of personal reasons as well. I offered you that way out because, as Naruto's best friend, I had to protect him, and so I had to do everything I could about you." Kiba admitted shame evident in his handsome features. "With you, Naruto tends to makes decisions that he normally wouldn't. I'm scared that, that may harm him in the long run."

After a period of an awkward silence, Sasuke nodded and turned on his heel and left the office without a second glance back.

???

For the rest of the morning, Sasuke spent it bidding good-bye to the other secretaries under Naruto and apologizing to the secretarial office for having to take over his job so suddenly. But so many times, Sauske wanted to tell them that he wasn't leaving that they didn't need to do his jobs, but in the end, Sasuke's just couldn't force the words out of his mouth.

Sasuke looked around warily as he entered the familiar department and found it almost empty.

"Being Director Uzumaki's head secretary was hard." The secretary looked over towards Naruto's personal office. "But I love this job."

Sasuke sighed at the director's closed door. "I don't want to quit."

The raven checked his e-mails to make sure something important hadn't been sent in his absent. "I know there are only things that I can do, since I already know the director is a vampire. Preparing schedules so that he doesn't have to go out in direct sunlight is a good example. Arranging things so that Director Uzumaki can move around freely without having to come into direct contact with the sun, and then arranging and covering up after his 'meals'."

Sasuke looked at the calendar placed on his desk with the date for tomorrow circled in bright red ink. "Damn it. Since he already took my blood yesterday, he won't need to feel until next week. Sakura's tomorrow and she gets bitchy when she doesn't get laid. I guess I'll just mark it down as a date and send her flowers today as a present. I guess that means…"

Sasuke could feel his pen cracking under the pressure of his fingers. "I'm back to just watching the director seduce people into bed. Back to the ways things were before. He'll drink their blood and then come for mine."

Sasuke wanted to bang his head against the desk. "And I'll just sit here, patiently waiting…"

???

"You're sick?"

"Yes. But in my absence, it was arranged that all my duties will be taken over by the secretarial office. I'll return after a week."

"I'm lying." Sasuke internally cringed. He hated liars. Now he was one himself. "This will probably be the last time I see you again, Director." Sasuke suddenly found the floor very interesting.

Naruto watched Sasuke closely as the secretary fidgeted and refused to look the blond in the eye. Naruto sighed and grabbed Sasuke's chin and forced the raven to look at him.

"You don't look sick."

Sasuke gulped as Naruto inched closer.

"Is it because of yesterday?"

The words seem to blend and melt together till they weren't even actual words to Sasuke anymore. All the raven could focus on was the vampire in front of him. The memories from that early morning flowed back, and Sasuke suddenly felt very hot. He felt himself reaching for the blonde's touch as Naruto smoothed his thumb over the skin of Sasuke's cheek. Sasuke craned his neck so that he could meet the blond half way in the kiss, but before lips could touch, Naruto quickly turned away.

"Fine. See you in a week. It's not like the company will stop working if you're not around."

"Right…" Sasuke softly answered as he turned to leave the office before stopping and turned back around. "And director."

Naruto glanced over his shoulder quizzically.

"While I'm gone, I've already scheduled 'meals' for some time ahead. The next 'meal' is Sakura-sama on –"

"Ahhhhh." Naruto interrupted. "Not her. Her dad's company's stocks are dropping and their value is dropping as well. It's not a big loss though. Her blood was only decent, and she was pretty and fairly smart. But other than that, she wasn't all that useful to me."

"Of course, sir…" Sasuke answered looking down. "If they're not useful then he discards them without a second thought."

"I'll rearrange you schedule then. I'll also tell the other secretaries to makes sure that the office you use for your 'meals' is always empty and open." Sasuke rearranged names and times on the calendar and then handed it to Naruto. "Sooner or later, I'll become useless and he'll discard me too. I was a very useful secretary, I'm convenient, and my blood was particular. But I'll become useless eventually."

After going over the new schedule, Sasuke handed a few documents to Naruto and told the blond good-bye as he turned to leave.

But as Sasuke closed the door behind him, he didn't notice the longing cerulean eyes that followed after him. When the door closed, Naruto seemed to be awoken from the daze he was in. The blond light a cigarette and turned to face the large window in his office. He watched the cars and people passing below before suddenly punching the glass and causing the thick glass to crack. Naruto dropped his fist and admired the spider web looking cracks.

"He's just another human… Nothing more…" Naruto grumbled as he punched the glass again.

???

Three days passed. Five days passed. Nine days passed. Ten days passed. Sasuke never returned to work again.

???

Naruto nearly destroyed Kiba's office door.

Kiba seemed fairly calm as Naruto angrily slammed his hand down onto the dog lover's desk, while the secretary beside Kiba was about ready to run.

"What the fuck, Kiba?" Naruto snarled.

"'Fuck'? Are we using it as a verb or a noun?" Kiba smirked back.

Naruto glared and knew his eyes were probably bleeding red, because he sure as hell was seeing red. "You reappointed my secretary!"

"Yes. And?" Kiba questioned as the secretary beside him tried desperately to get him to sign the papers so that she could high-tail it out of there before the real fireworks started.

"What business do you have reappointing my secretary?"

"I was just doing my job. I am the head of human resources after all."

"Well, I'm a vampire, so I'm hardly human. And you weren't just doing your job." Naruto mocked angrily. "You wanted to get Uchiha as far away from me as possible."

"I have no –"

Kiba was violently cut off as Naruto grabbed the collar of the brunette's dress shirt. "He's mine. I fucking hate it when dumbasses like you mess with my stuff."

"Wow Naruto." Kiba smirked. "I didn't know you were so attached to Sasuke-kun. I didn't even know you could be so attached to a 'simple human'. I thought it was impossible for you."

Naruto glared as he released Kiba roughly.

"Are you, maybe, in love with Sasuke-kun?" Kiba teased.

"Now that," Naruto smirked. "Is why you're a dumbass. That wouldn't happen even if my life depended on it."

"That's what I use to think too." Kiba answered, suddenly very serious.

"Sasuke-kun isn't the type you usually go after. What you look for in a sexual partner is first, how hot they are. Then you check to make sure they'll be useful to you, and finally, you study their qualities as a person. It was easier for you when the people you had around you were diplomatic and useful because they didn't cause problems and were fun to toy with. But Sasuke-kun isn't like that. Looks wise, he'd be perfect, but qualities wise, Sasuke-kun is nothing like your sexual partners. He was your perfect secretary. You should have never laid a hand on him. We misjudged how strong his sense of duty was."

"Sense of duty?" Naruto questioned, glancing over his shoulder.

"How far he was willing to go to complete his job." Kiba clarified. "To avoid trouble for you, Sasuke-kun offered his blood to you even though he knew you were only using him because he was convenient. Besides, weren't you happy about this? Isn't that why you're attached to him? You've never shown that kind of attachment before. Not even to your parents."

"Don't be stupid, Kiba. It's impossible for me to fall in love with some pathetic human," Naruto spat out the words like they were poisonous. "He was good at his job and his blood was unusual. That's why I was angry you had reappointed him, and, to make it clear, I didn't come here because I cared about the Uchiha. I came because I don't like the sneaky way you used."

Naruto glared before walking passed Kiba in an angry huff.

"He asked me to reappoint him." Kiba's words caused Naruto to pause. "He said he couldn't stay by your side anymore."

Naruto turned back hesitantly and waited for Kiba to continue.

"But no matter what kind of special attachment you may have had to him. If you don't let go of your damn pride as a vampire, he'll eventually come to hate you. I'm planning to move him away from headquarters." Seeing that he had Naruto's full undivided attention, Kiba continued. "Naruto, have you ever thought maybe you're not attracted to his blood because his blood is special, but because Sasuke-kun is special? So that makes his blood special?"

Naruto seemed to think this over carefully before he looked over to Kiba and smirked. "You really are a dumbass, you dumbass."

Kiba punched his desk, causing the forgotten secretary to jump (*), as the door slammed behind the just as angry blond.

???

"That's conditioner Itachi."

Itachi looked intently at the bottle before turning it upside down.

"It's conditioner Aniki."

Itachi popped the lid opened and squeezed a small amount into his hand.

"It's conditioner." Sasuke was starting to get annoyed.

Itachi looked intently at the small amount of the crème colored substance in his hand before looking up from his squatting position to Sasuke and saying:

"It's conditioner." (*)

Sasuke could feel a twitch in his eye. "No shit Sherlock…"

But the comment went unheard since Itachi chose then to stick his head under running water to wash his hair. Sasuke didn't know why his older brother didn't just wash his hair when he took a shower like normal people.

"Hair freak…" Sasuke grumbled as the phone started to ring.

Sasuke sighed and went down stairs to pick up the phone. "Uchiha residence."

"Uchiha-san?"

The raven nearly dropped the phone upon hearing the voice on the other end.

"Director?"

"I'm outside." Naruto stated simply and hung up.

"Wha? Hello?!" Sasuke growled as he grabbed a jacket. "Itachi I'll be back in a bit. I'm gonna go to the store!" Sasuke yelled as he opened the front door.

"Fine, but get some conditioner will you?!" Itachi yelled back. "I think we're out!"

"Itachi it's a new bottle! We can't be out already!" Sasuke shouted and shut the door behind him.

Sasuke quickly descended the stairs to his front door and ran down the drive way to find Naruto leaning against a very expensive-looking midnight blue (*) Ferrari parked across the street. Sasuke tried to steady his nerves and walked closer to where the blond director was.

"Get better?" Naruto asked as he threw his cigarette to the ground and stepped it out.

"Yes sir." Sasuke answered. "How… uh… is the company?"

"Nothing major. A few problems here and there, but nothing serious. Generally just went back to the way things were before you came." Naruto replied.

"Hn… And today?" Sasuke suddenly felt like a housewife asking the husband how his day at work was. Sasuke had to fight down the blush that was forming. "Um… Do you need blood?"

Naruto glanced over towards a nervous looking Sasuke before pulling the raven against him. "If you can offer yourself to me so easily then why the hell are you leaving? You liked it when I drank your blood and you thought your job was worth doing. So why leave?" Naruto glared before kissing Sasuke hard.

Sasuke could feel himself responding and the pressure of the kiss was painful and Sasuke knew his lips were probably blue and purple by now, but he didn't care. As Naruto licked a path down Sasuke's neck, the raven pulled the blond closer even though his brain told him to push the blond away as hard as possible. When Sasuke felt fangs nipping at his throat, his body finally listened to his brain.

"S…Stop!" Sasuke finally shouted as he forced Naruto away.

"That's why I have to leave. I hate it that you make me drown in sensations that aren't compatible with my real feelings." Sasuke stepped further away from the blond. "I'm lying again. My heart wants you more than even my body does. I can't control anything when I'm near you."

"I can't give you my blood anymore." Sasuke stated resolutely.

"Then you are no longer useful to me." Naruto answered easily.

Sasuke looked towards Naruto in shock. Naruto didn't miss the shocked expression and smirked.

"You think to highly of yourself. Sure you were a perfect secretary and your blood was particular, but I now that you don't work for me, you are useless to me, and I will not waste my time chasing after some human. I can replace you easily." Naruto climbed into his car, started it, and sped off.

Sasuke continued to stare in shock even when the revving of Naruto's engine could no longer be heard. "I guess somewhere deep down. I had always thought I was special. I thought the director would come and bring me back kicking and screaming because he needed me. But he just threw me away… He left me. I'm…"

Sasuke sank to the cold concrete as rain started to soak his clothing.

"Unneeded…"

TBC…

(*) – Haha. ^__^' I honestly did forget about the secretary until I went back and reread it. XD

(*) - This actually happened in real life. My mom was washing her hair and she picked up the conditioner bottle and well basically I was Sasuke and my mom was Itachi. XD Just I didn't say "No shit Sherlock" I just kinda looked at her and then walked away.

(*) – XD has anyone noticed that Naruto is a little lacking in the orange area in this fan fiction? Oh well…

Aw the angst XD

And once again my brain and imagination have run off to frolic in that same field of flowers and have been mauled by that same mysteriously appearing lion. XD Ahh, my brain and imagination never learn.

So please review and stuff. :D

Till Nästa temne~

– ohhowfluffyyouare